DESCRIPTION:

The RightScale AWS gems have been designed to provide a robust, fast, and
secure interface to Amazon EC2, EBS, S3, SQS, SDB, and CloudFront. These
gems have been used in production by RightScale since late 2006 and are
being maintained to track enhancements made by Amazon. The RightScale AWS
gems comprise:

FEATURES:

Persistent HTTP connections with robust network-level retry layer using
RightHttpConnection). This includes socket timeouts and retries.

Robust HTTP-level retry layer. Certain (user-adjustable) HTTP errors
returned by Amazon's services are classified as temporary errors. These
errors are automaticallly retried using exponentially increasing intervals.
The number of retries is user-configurable.